°•♡Chapter 11~ Familial Bonds

Ronan's eyes softened, his lips parting. “She told me once—before she even found you—that if the Moonborn ever returned, it would be someone no one expected. Someone who had been cast aside.”

My eyes fell from his face, the ground beneath me suddenly becoming my point of focus as he continued to speak.

“She said if anyone could survive the impossible…it would be you.”

I felt a lump form in my throat and for a moment, I couldn’t breathe.

And then, to make things worse, I remembered her eyes, her sweet voice, the warmth of her embrace. She used to wrap around me like a shield, even when I didn’t understand why. When it felt like she had no reason to treat me differently from how the pack did.

Mira believed in me?

The cold wind blew across the training ground, and I stood still, thinking of Mira’s words, the baby curled safely inside of me, and the impossible future waiting on the other side of this trial.

This trial that I didn't know if I'd even come out alive of.

I didn’t know if I wa